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Why conservatives are loving ObamaCare

After suing ObamaCare for forcing them to cram more people into financially-challenged Medicaid programs, six fiscally-conservative Republican governors recently voluntarily agreed to extend these programs. Reason Foundation Senior Analyst Shikha Dalmia notes in her morning Washington Examiner column that this is because ObamaCare’s perverse incentives has states in a vise: “Noncompliant states face a double whammy — lose federal money and expose their businesses to additional taxes.”

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Of course it’s blackmail. So is Title IX for equality in women’s athleticsand Title I for federal education monies. So was the double nickel speed limit. Anytime a state or locality or state institution accepts federal dollars there will ALWAYS be a proviso to follow federal command or risk losing the dolars you’ve become addicted to.Here SCOTUS said the states cannot be docked Medicaid funds to which thry are already entitled but the possible loss of business to other states is a result not to be trifled with.

Your observations are keen. However, at some point, the states’ status as serfs/slaves is confirmed. I would say that six of them have already admitted that their states’ citizens are now federal subjects and have no inherent right to be free.

The Anne Barnhardt response is the only solution. She’s started her own tax-revolt. We’re way past working within the political system. Obamacare guarantees a Big Government future for the Unites States, and our political establishment has proven they’ve lost the will to resist this.

If enough people stop complying with un-Constitutional diktat then what can they do?